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Pop Art
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An art movement that rose to prominence in the 1960’s in Britain and the United States, focusing on aspects of popular culture that had traditionally been ignored by fine artists, such as consumerism, comic books and celebrity.
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Bauhaus
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the “house of building,” a state sponsored school of the arts founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany in 1919. The Bauhaus was closed by the nazis in 1933.

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Paul Rand – Swiss Style – Corporate logos
1960s 1970s era… UPS, ABC
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Cubism – Charles Demuth – Figure 5 in Gold - 1928
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Fagus Factory – Circa 1911 – Walter Gropius
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Miles Van Der Rohe – 1972 – MLK – Bauhaus
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Albers – Bauhaus – Homage to the square – 1969
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Saul Bass - West Side Story – 1961 - Minimalism
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Andy Warhol – 1963 – Heinz Ketchup Box – Campbells Soup Cans - 1962– Pop Art
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WHAM! – Roy Lichtenstien – 1963
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Mark Rothco – Black on Maroon – 1958 – Post Painterly Abstraction
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Clifford Still – 1947 – J - Post Painterly Abstraction
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Claes Oldenburg – Lipsticks in Picadelli Circus – 1966 – Pop Art
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Richard Hamilton – Homage to the Chrysler Corp – 1957 – Pop Art
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Robert Rachenburg – Retro Active – 1963 – Stop – 1963 Neo Dada
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Kosuth- One and three chairs - 1965 – Conceptual Art
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Keith Arnatt – Im a real artist – 1962 – Conceptual Art
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Gilbert and George – Here – 1987
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Cindy Sherman – Untitled Film Still #14 - #7 – 1978 - Neo Conceptual Art
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Damien Hurst - The Physical Impossibility of Death in the mind of someone living – 1992 – Shock/Conceptual Art
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Kruger - Untitled “I shop therefore I am” – 1987 – Don’t be a Jerk – 1986 Conceptual Art
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Prince - Untitled “4 single men with interchangeable backgrounds looking to the left” – 1977 – Conceptual Art
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Richard Prince – Untitled Cowboy – 1989 – Conceptual Art
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Keith Haring – Subway Drawing – 1983 – Graffitti
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Pettibon – A touch of poetry – 1997 - Grafitti/Street Art
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Jeff Koons – Rabbit Sculpture – 1986 – Pop Art
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Dacvid Carson – Breakout Magazine 1992 –
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Sagmeister - 1999 - Shock art
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Swiss style
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a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity. Easy to read slogans. Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and flush left, ragged right text. The style is also associated with a preference for photography in place of illustrations or drawings. Many of the early International Typographic Style works featured typography as a primary design element in addition to its use in text, and it is for this that the style is named
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Abstract Expressionism
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an American post–World War II art movement. . It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence. 1946. The movement's name is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism.
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